Death by Drowning: A Medieval Execution of Breathtaking Suffering...

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  • @eliz_scubavn
    @eliz_scubavn 2 роки тому +104

    The idea of drowning terrifies me. I’m a trained scuba diver and even though I’m going under water voluntarily it does enter my head just for a second that I could die.
    The idea that I could be drowned intentionally is just the worst.

    • @liftingisfun2350
      @liftingisfun2350 2 роки тому +4

      Just for a second? You're relying on equipment and can't even swim up quickly if it fails lol

    • @RaoulDuke333
      @RaoulDuke333 2 роки тому +3

      I drowned once when I was a child I jumped straight in the deep end couldn’t swim and breathed the water in immediately. I passed out just like when you have anesthetiser before an operation. Totally painless and just like going to sleep . Better to breathe the water in than hold your breath if you have no choice. Hope this helps

    • @flybeep1661
      @flybeep1661 2 роки тому

      @@liftingisfun2350 Lol, you're so funny and totally ignorant. You can't just swim up when your equipment fails unless you're only a couple of feet/meters under water. Why you ask? Find that out for yourself and gain some knowledge instead of making comments with zero knowledge of what you're talking about.

    • @flybeep1661
      @flybeep1661 2 роки тому

      @@RaoulDuke333 If you drowned as a child you'd be fucking DEAD, drowning = death smartass. The rest of your story is total BULLSHIT. Fuck off.

    • @liftingisfun2350
      @liftingisfun2350 2 роки тому

      @Fly Beep that's literally what I said, try re reading my comment genius. If it fails, you cannot quickly swim up and really can't do anything.

  • @foxtailedcritter
    @foxtailedcritter 2 роки тому +153

    I'm Learning more about history from this channel then I ever did in highschool. This man is pretty good at explaining it.

    • @kristiskinner8542
      @kristiskinner8542 2 роки тому +13

      Well #1 his focus is on one small portion of history therefore naturally he's able to go into more detail about that one portion. #2 you only have history classes for so many years in school & most kids of those ages dont really appreciate it or remember much of what they are taught (even those like myself who actually liked history) along with being far more interested in/concerned with other things going on at the time like sports, friends, boyfriends/girlfriends, parties etc

    • @monicacall7532
      @monicacall7532 2 роки тому +6

      Me too. This channel is like getting a BA in Medieval Studies but without having to take lame and/or boring general ed classes. I love learning this way!

    • @SuperAustinFTW
      @SuperAustinFTW 2 роки тому +4

      Then you should have read your textbooks more.

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 2 роки тому +2

      Probably less distracted now though

    • @based_prophet
      @based_prophet 2 роки тому +1

      Considering you only get like 150 hours of history a year one could easily surpass this in days how u expect kid prodigy try me it's not smarts its hours n health

  • @NinjaGrrrl7734
    @NinjaGrrrl7734 2 роки тому +44

    Breathtaking? You're hurting me here, baby. Punishment indeed 🤣🤣🤣 I adore your work and your terrible, terrible puns. More pun pain please!

  • @spiritoftheforest6204
    @spiritoftheforest6204 2 роки тому +46

    What had the poor animals done? This is a great channel.

    • @judydavenport9636
      @judydavenport9636 2 роки тому +1

      good question. I thought maybe the animal would freak out seeing he was drowning and maybe injure the condemned real bad.. ie the murder mittens on the cat as he was drowned. If its any other reason i don't know what it is.

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Рік тому

      There have been animals convicted in court for stealing, for example. Very weird. Not the owner, no, a pig could get a penalty. You can check these stories. Some countries have been pretty bazurk in the past.

    • @alisonbrowning9620
      @alisonbrowning9620 Рік тому +1

      animals were nothing to do them, life was not scared it seems

    • @warriorjason2763
      @warriorjason2763 8 місяців тому

      @@alisonbrowning9620only royals are certain church members

  • @beths1140
    @beths1140 2 роки тому +15

    I went to school with a girl who drowned when she was 5. She fell in the pool and was dead when her father found her. He did CPR and saved her. She said drowning was very peaceful and she hoped when she eventually died that it would be by drowning. I imagine it must have been peaceful to her because she didn't fight it.

    • @jonnaking3054
      @jonnaking3054 2 роки тому +4

      I'm terrified of water and to me drowning always seemed like the worst way to go.

  • @hicknopunk
    @hicknopunk 2 роки тому +8

    Yes, i was drowning and every moment of it was desperate and hopeless. I was, pulled up to where I could get my mouth over the water. It was terrifying.

  • @firebyrd437
    @firebyrd437 2 роки тому +17

    I live in a small town in Scotland, we have a rich history though , we have a witches hill where the unfortunately victims were burned alive, very few people will walk up there, including me, there was body found on the sands not far from our town, records indicated that this was an elderly woman who was guilty of witch craft but died before she could be burnt. A forensic image was created of this poor woman and she looked like a sweet old lady that you will find in any town, city or country street today, poor soul did not survive her torture

    • @pepsirag457
      @pepsirag457 2 роки тому +2

      Would you mind sharing the name of the village please?

  • @absentiambient
    @absentiambient 2 роки тому +64

    Name a better way to fire up the weekend than the classic dunkin & drowing

    • @weirdox3350
      @weirdox3350 2 роки тому

      Savage

    • @noahhildebrandt8650
      @noahhildebrandt8650 2 роки тому +6

      America runs on dunkin

    • @saltymemesmith
      @saltymemesmith 2 роки тому +2

      Me and the Lads would walk home along a canal after the pub, we'd always dunk this one Guy under water for ages by his feet..
      He'd be shouting "please I cant breathe, I nearly drown."
      Everyone's laughing so hard impossible to hear him properly.
      Good times! 🤣

    • @HansOvervoorde
      @HansOvervoorde 2 роки тому +1

      I'd opt to stay sober many years, so that I can drrrink 105 gallons of wine, to save my dear life for when I have done wrong.

  • @dflatt1783
    @dflatt1783 2 роки тому +65

    I wonder if 1000 years from now if people will be looking back on what we did and think to themselves "WTF was wrong with those people". Like we do with medieval people today.

    • @theobserver9131
      @theobserver9131 2 роки тому +20

      We don't have to wait 1000 years. I already ask myself that every day. We are still terrible, awful creatures.

    • @dflatt1783
      @dflatt1783 2 роки тому +4

      @@theobserver9131 But Hey! We getting better lol.

    • @anesu846
      @anesu846 2 роки тому

      100%. Every society thinks they’re smarter than the last and there’s almost no biological evidence that we are. As Nietzsche says, it’s all about who had the power, no generation is special, nor can it be the smartest

    • @anesu846
      @anesu846 2 роки тому +5

      @@dflatt1783 supposedly lol. I think we are after the wrong ends completely. Everything we are doing seems to be making us more divided, unhappy and unhealthy

    • @dflatt1783
      @dflatt1783 2 роки тому +12

      @@anesu846 As opposed to a time in human history when people were undivided, happy and healthy? I must have missed that era in my history class lol. :)

  • @benpreston5809
    @benpreston5809 2 роки тому +4

    This channel is ridiculously good.

  • @millermonsterair
    @millermonsterair 2 роки тому +9

    every time i see a new upload from MedievalMadness, i click and like the vid before i even start watching because i already know its gonna be good.

  • @amakuaole
    @amakuaole 2 роки тому +5

    They thought of it all. All of the cruelest things to do to a person. "There's nothing new under the sun."

  • @nelsonx5326
    @nelsonx5326 2 роки тому +13

    I almost drowned a few times. It was scary.

  • @paigeturner7788
    @paigeturner7788 Рік тому +2

    I’ve been binge watching these videos of yours! They’re all so interesting and easy to listen to. The narrator is spot on! This is definitely one of my favorite UA-cam channels. 🥰

  • @SpamMouse
    @SpamMouse 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for fleshing out our past - so much more engaging than any BBC history programme.

  • @garrettfields6972
    @garrettfields6972 2 роки тому +2

    Great channel man! always happy to see a new upload from you!

  • @kmorris180
    @kmorris180 2 роки тому +7

    I think the testing of witches changed quickly when it was discovered that if someone weighed the same as a duck, they were a witch.

  • @michaellyons5208
    @michaellyons5208 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks as always for not watering down your content

  • @astardustparade
    @astardustparade 2 роки тому +2

    I LOVE your channel! I learn something new every week from you.

  • @chelseaelizabethbrown2399
    @chelseaelizabethbrown2399 2 роки тому +11

    Just as entertaining as the last with the medieval madness feeling. Thanks for another episode, can't wait for the next the historic torture methods are a particular favorite for me 😊

    • @sedna1766
      @sedna1766 2 роки тому +1

      Same here! I bought this book a fair few years ago, its awesome and very interesting with plenty of graphic descriptions and methods, it's called 'The Big Book of Pain: Torture and Punishment Through History' by Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly, easy to pick up randomly but hard to put down! 😁

  • @stephenbowers7901
    @stephenbowers7901 2 роки тому +16

    It's that Friday feeling.... MedievalMadness drop yet another class in our dARK history and my world is once again a better place.... Feeling kinda like the ones 'who read the books' before game of thrones as I was here at the start of something cool for once meehee 😁 Love your work... top quality as always thanks. Spread the word these vids are the schizz x

  • @nickim6571
    @nickim6571 2 роки тому +17

    I almost drowned once and it is VERY painful.

    • @anonymouskid239
      @anonymouskid239 2 роки тому

      how is it painful?

    • @nickim6571
      @nickim6571 2 роки тому +4

      @@anonymouskid239 It feels like your lungs are on fire.

    • @SaltySteff
      @SaltySteff Рік тому

      ​@@anonymouskid239 after holding your breath for so long your lungs will take an automatic breath whether your brain tells it to or not. This is supposed to be excruciatingly painful when it happens.

  • @saltymemesmith
    @saltymemesmith 2 роки тому +9

    That's nothing, I once held my breath under water in my bath tub for nearly 20 seconds 👣

  • @deltonmcclary7341
    @deltonmcclary7341 2 роки тому +7

    All Hallow's Eve episode coming soon? 😉

  • @hassankhalid4969
    @hassankhalid4969 2 роки тому +7

    its actually kind of adorable how people consider the earth pimple at 8:05 as a "hill"

  • @mikmak2102
    @mikmak2102 2 роки тому +8

    The reason he wanted to be drowned in that wine is because it was the queens favourite wine and he wanted to be petty.

  • @Anamnesis010
    @Anamnesis010 2 роки тому +3

    Love your videos.

  • @thiccredgyal3404
    @thiccredgyal3404 2 роки тому +2

    WTF am I watching this when I'm stoned. I just keep imagining what it feels like to drown. Excellent 👍 video BTW

  • @HolyPineCone
    @HolyPineCone 2 роки тому +3

    History is so interesting! It's kind of fascinating how school manages to make it so incredibly boring. I liked science in school but now, 15 years later, I still like learning about history. How did they manage to make history so dull? Just like the potatoes they constantly ruined I guess.

  • @sjstu
    @sjstu 2 роки тому +1

    Love this channel.

  • @Iesous27
    @Iesous27 2 роки тому

    It's always the most suspenseful thing for me when I watch it in movies or shows. Drowning scenes always get me 😩

  • @beezyb42011
    @beezyb42011 2 роки тому +4

    That's f***** up that they put all those animals in the leather sack with him and drowned them all?

    • @SaltySteff
      @SaltySteff Рік тому +1

      Yeah my thoughts exactly. As much as I hate the things humans do to eachother, why involve innocent animals. I can't imagine the suffering felt by all in that sack.

  • @stephenlamley541
    @stephenlamley541 2 роки тому +1

    I've had two pulmonary oedemas. On a basic level its internal drowning and absolutely terrifying let me tell you. Horrendous, i was very close to dying i almost gave in. Then the doctor realised I'd been on a drip too long, talk about negligence.

  • @donallally4892
    @donallally4892 2 роки тому +2

    The medieval period was so cruel it's hard to imagine now. Mind you it's a longtime before we had proper law and order, or having police and courts of law

  • @None_of_your_business666
    @None_of_your_business666 2 роки тому

    The cheers at the end of such videos that describe such horrible things is hilarious

  • @alisonbrowning9620
    @alisonbrowning9620 Рік тому

    the burning in your throat when you start to drown is really painful

  • @ArThor70
    @ArThor70 2 роки тому +2

    This planet is a wicked place. ☠

    • @SpamMouse
      @SpamMouse 2 роки тому +1

      The planet is fine - it's the people that are the problem.

  • @Dolores5000
    @Dolores5000 2 роки тому +1

    Oh wow I jus read Shogun holy hell there’s a chilling scene concerning man vs caldron

  • @srky4346
    @srky4346 2 роки тому +2

    Why did I learn about the bag thing. Horrible, truly barbaric.

  • @Jiggleton
    @Jiggleton 2 роки тому +2

    9:25 LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOORRR

  • @jackiereynolds2888
    @jackiereynolds2888 2 роки тому +6

    The narrator was spot-on with his description of the actual
    experience of drowning.
    The city of Commerce out in the state of California in the county of Los Angeles,
    I personally enjoyed a genuine experience of death by drowning; fortunately I was spared the 'closing sequence' by an attentive lifeguard. Actual clinical death had to wait until I grew-up into a blue-ribbon fool and idiot and dropped form alcohol toxicity.
    The experience of my drowning that day in a public pool (called the 'Plunge' back then) was so very terrifying, - the events preceding it are still, after more than half-a-century, as vivid as my typing these very words.
    Conciliations ? well the girl who dove in and rescued me🙂 - any pretty young woman and any pre-pubescent boy - is always good for -
    🙂 ♥️ 🧨 😛 💘 💥😉.

  • @craigstarling4704
    @craigstarling4704 2 роки тому +1

    Yep, Thank God the Cat and dog made it.

  • @silentking5559
    @silentking5559 2 роки тому +1

    There's a big difference between being drowned in salt water and being drowned in fresh water.
    In salt water you essentially choke on the water until you die of hypoxia, considering how agonising it is to have water in your lungs just for a moment downing in salt water has to be one of the worst possible deaths. Drowning in fresh water is still very painful, but when you eventually inhale the water it passes straight into your blood and to your brain, causing you to become unconscious very quickly and sparing you the agony of chocking for an extended period.

    • @funpheonix9752
      @funpheonix9752 Рік тому

      But with fresh water drowning, you could also be a victim of “dry drowning” where there’s water still trapped in your lungs, making you drown on land. At least if you drown in saltwater and get rescued in time, there’s no dry drowning involved. Both have their massive downsides.

  • @toonmag50
    @toonmag50 Рік тому +1

    A male chicken is called a Cock in the UK.and the word has been used for the description for over 1000 years.

  • @TedBackus
    @TedBackus Місяць тому

    my friends & i were playing in a shallow pond on a field trip and a chaperone asked where 1 of the kids was, we thought he went to pee, or whatever. we played for another 20 minutes or so, but i got angry because someone kept kicking my legs under water, so i left the water & did some other stuff. later in the day, the chaperones noticed that kid was still missing. they found him in 4ft of water, right where we were playing, im fairly confident it was his arms or legs underwater that were 'kicking' me. it turned out he didnt know how to swim but lied as to not miss out.

  • @CHRISDLAW-hw1mp
    @CHRISDLAW-hw1mp 2 роки тому +3

    Feel sorry for the animals they didn't do anything. Lol imagine you are just chilling playing with your favorite ball, scratching the ground, eating some fruits, or just laying in the sun to get warm next thing you know you are in a bag with a bunch of other shits underwater lol.....

  • @krisschmidt4054
    @krisschmidt4054 2 роки тому

    Bro I'm practicing my navy prone float lol perfect timing

  • @destyrian
    @destyrian 2 роки тому +2

    "In 13th century England, anyone found guilty of murder on one of the king's ships would be strapped to their victim's body and tossed into the sea to drown."
    That is the most metal method of execution I've ever heard.

  • @katelaloba8243
    @katelaloba8243 2 роки тому

    Holy harshness Batman

  • @GregoryChew0921
    @GregoryChew0921 Рік тому

    that’s my drowning hole in the backyard.

  • @1Highways
    @1Highways 2 роки тому +1

    We would never be that cruel amount in current days... water boarding?

  • @sunflowers730
    @sunflowers730 Рік тому

    Ok, the sack one horrifies me. What did those poor animals do to deserve that?

    • @_argh.1
      @_argh.1 5 місяців тому

      Probably was made to weigh the sack down and or make it even more difficult to escape
      Also predatory animals were also put in sacks so it would’ve made the situation much more painful for the victim

  • @voornaam3191
    @voornaam3191 Рік тому

    Meet or moot? In Dutch "I meet" is "ik ontmoet". Forget that "ont" for a while, it's a prefix. The oo sound still lives on. Right across the North Sea.

  • @honorladone8682
    @honorladone8682 2 роки тому +1

    Let the bodies hit the floor---drowning pool

  • @jeffheyer7783
    @jeffheyer7783 2 роки тому

    Crazy they thought drowning to be painless..

  • @poeticsilence047
    @poeticsilence047 2 роки тому +1

    I guess in those times they were able to drink their problems away.

  • @seanfoltz7645
    @seanfoltz7645 8 місяців тому

    Probably one of the more humane ways to kill someone - so long as you were kept underwater - as you're talking 30-60 seconds of being able to hold your breath since you were panicked and your body was burning O2 faster than you calmly sitting in your chair timing how long you can hold your breath, then, once you couldn't hold out any longer and gasped for air, about thirty seconds of discomfort before your brain shuts down, with your body following a few minutes later.
    That's the thing about O2 depravation, as your brain can only handle about 30 seconds of no O2 before it shuts down, hence the reason why slitting someone's throat is so effective at rapidly killing them.

  • @honorladone8682
    @honorladone8682 2 роки тому +1

    Vlad the impaler is my favorite.

  • @sarah_the_tea_queen1404
    @sarah_the_tea_queen1404 2 роки тому +1

    If you wan’t to keep making videos about madievel/historical torture methods you should look into scaphism

  • @old_boy9030
    @old_boy9030 2 роки тому +1

    Everybody gangsta till they can't fkng breathe

  • @noblestsavage1742
    @noblestsavage1742 2 роки тому +1

    How would they hold someone down with a pile of wood? Wood floats!!!

    • @sarah82ish
      @sarah82ish 2 роки тому

      I think someone would actually hold the wood. Pushing them down

  • @deltonmcclary7341
    @deltonmcclary7341 2 роки тому

    Yeahhh!! Witchcraft in the medieval times coming soon I hope!

  • @kimwhatmatters4085
    @kimwhatmatters4085 Рік тому

    Why were cats and dogs put into the sack with the prisoner ??? Did thru think animals guide you to the underworld or something because a lot of ppl were buried with animals

  • @1987sfinest
    @1987sfinest 2 роки тому +1

    This world is still medieval and savage,human nature?

  • @jingles123456789ify
    @jingles123456789ify 2 роки тому +3

    Lmaoo why the drawing of a snake? Why not just omit it completely at that point

  • @stevem.o.1185
    @stevem.o.1185 2 роки тому

    The sack WOULD be popular in SAXony.
    We live in a shoddy simulation.

  • @rncine
    @rncine 2 роки тому

    I’m not going near water, ever 🙀

  • @1aikane
    @1aikane 2 роки тому

    What humans do to each other. Hideous

  • @no1diesfromlove
    @no1diesfromlove 2 роки тому +3

    breathtaking suffering. Lol

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine 2 роки тому +5

    Lol a drawing of a snake

    • @cjthebeesknees
      @cjthebeesknees 2 роки тому +1

      Right, EDWARD grab the colored pencils and paper and draw your best snake. Make it pretty and colorful!

  • @slimytoad1447
    @slimytoad1447 2 роки тому +1

    Ottoman siblings were strangled with a silken cord not drowned

  • @melissaharris3890
    @melissaharris3890 2 роки тому +3

    I heard that drowning isn't a bad way to go. People who were brought back from the brink of death said the first 2 minutes are terrifying , but after that it w as like falling asleep

    • @BigButtocks967
      @BigButtocks967 2 роки тому +6

      The 1st 2 minutes!
      2 minutes can feel like an absolute lifetime if you’re in excruciating pain.

    • @lilywilson6230
      @lilywilson6230 2 роки тому

      Silco?

    • @melissaharris3890
      @melissaharris3890 2 роки тому

      @@BigButtocks967 Well, yes. But then it's not bad.

    • @Klayperson
      @Klayperson 2 роки тому +2

      That's nothing. Being burned only hurts for less than a minute until you breathe flame and your lungs are scorched, then when you die all the pain stops, so really it isn't that bad!

    • @melissaharris3890
      @melissaharris3890 2 роки тому +1

      @@Klayperson not quite. Its when you pass out because of breathing in all the smoke and lack of oxygen

  • @jackiereynolds2888
    @jackiereynolds2888 2 роки тому +1

    Not so much the methods used etc. but the reasons WHY for this (on-going) mind-numbing practice and prevalence of mankind
    killing one another is what I think what really deserves attention and investigation by historians.
    There is no-such-thing as the dessemination of genuine established 'facts'
    'History' had always been
    'INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN'.
    They are two DIFFERENT THINGS !

  • @teh5408show
    @teh5408show 2 роки тому

    “Breathtaking”😂

  • @bigwendigo2253
    @bigwendigo2253 2 роки тому +3

    The people of medieval time will never cease to disgust me with their extremely pious beliefs and their methods of execution for dumb reasons.

  • @kellykane7586
    @kellykane7586 Рік тому

    The snake was replaced by a Drawing of a snake😒WTF

  • @BuckfastConsumer
    @BuckfastConsumer 2 роки тому +2

    I'd rather live back then. We had no gmo in our food and not one thing was fake

  • @Toxicwasteeeeee
    @Toxicwasteeeeee 2 роки тому

    from all the other torture methods i’ve seen id rather be drowned

    • @SaltySteff
      @SaltySteff Рік тому

      The physical sensation of drowning may not be as painful as burning or flaying and other types of extremely painful deaths, but drowning is arguably far more terrifying and psychological. Drowning takes some time and it is still an excruciatingly painful death.

  • @saltymemesmith
    @saltymemesmith 2 роки тому +1

    Me and the Lads would walk home along a canal after the pub, we'd always dunk this one Guy under water for ages by his feet..
    He'd be shouting "please I cant breathe, I nearly drown."
    Everyone's laughing so hard impossible to hear him properly.
    Good times! 🤣

  • @cptjockitch
    @cptjockitch 2 роки тому +2

    We need to bring this back for criminals nowadays. Instead they get an infinite amount of appeals and a high priced lawyer paid for by the tax payer.

    • @skottlee8959
      @skottlee8959 2 роки тому +3

      You have an optimistic view of criminal defense.

    • @davidhoward4715
      @davidhoward4715 2 роки тому +2

      I'm guessing that the prospect that some of the executed victims are innocent arouses a lot of people.

    • @nurgle333
      @nurgle333 Рік тому

      Most criminals now just get let back out on the streets

  • @TinekeWilliams
    @TinekeWilliams 2 роки тому +2

    It stopped murderers etc from clogging up the jails and having to feed them. 😂

    • @SJ-jd8uh
      @SJ-jd8uh 2 роки тому

      Would be perfect now

  • @ishmael_03
    @ishmael_03 2 роки тому +2

    "It is unknown why men and women were treated differently" No it's not. Women have always been given preferential treatment.

    • @davidhoward4715
      @davidhoward4715 2 роки тому

      Good Lord; bedwetting incels are no whining about methods of execution.

    • @ishmael_03
      @ishmael_03 2 роки тому

      @@davidhoward4715 Nice way to lose an argument. 😁